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“The Lament for Icarus” by Herbert James Draper (1898). Source: Public Domain.
26 AUG 2025 · 7 MIN

World Mythology Warnings for TODAY #2: Icarus’s Flight & Dangerous Ambitions

Welcome back to our series World Mythology Warnings for Today. In case you missed our previous (and first) episode, be sure you click here to explore what happened in Persia. In today’s…
Face to face with a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). By Fallows C, Gallagher AJ, Hammerschlag N (2013). Source: CC BY 2.5.
22 JUL 2025 · 7 MIN

World’s Oldest Recorded Shark Attacks

For as long as humans have ventured into the seas, we’ve shared the waters together with sharks. These remarkable creatures hold the title for the world’s oldest evolutionary history of any living…
Zeus (Jupiter) observing the world of mortals from above, as eagles drive his chariot. By Flemish engraver Jan Sadeler I after Maarten de Vos. Circa 1585. Source: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
11 JUN 2025 · 8 MIN

When Zeus ‘Ate’ The Creator to Become Supreme God 

Zeus’s rise to ultimate power wasn’t just forged by thunderbolts and battles with Titans—it was an act of divine transcendence, rooted in an ancient Orphic tradition often overshadowed by Hesiod’s Theogony. Hesiod’s…